Being Passionate About Your Training Has Its Own Rewards

In those moments where time seems to stand still but you're doing what you love and having a blast, it becomes more than what is taking place. There are days where things may not go so well but you push through anyway and do what you can and still get that work in. Sometimes we're not always mentally there or get frustrated and our focus shifts that it isn't the right time to be motivated to train. On Tuesday, I was having set up issues that I had to fix from putting the band together with where I was setting it up and had one of those frustrating moments. After a few attempts and trying to do what I went there to do, I wanted to see some exercises I can give a go for the circuit, a couple exercises just didn't feel right and after maybe 2 unsuccessful rounds, I switched to exercises I knew well enough to work with that I liked and it was off to the races completing those exercises and my 10 Rounds (500 Reps Total).

Sounds petty but there is a point to this. Out of frustration, it can be difficult to shut off once it hits you but when your instincts kick in and you still have that drive to do what you are passionate about, it rewards you later with the fact knowing even you don't always have the motivation and you have something fixated on your brain that doesn't leave you right away but you don't let it stop you from getting back up and keep going. After that workout, yeah I was still pissed off at myself still fighting inside my own head but I also knew that doing that 500 Rep workout needed to be done for me and I made it happen. My mind wasn't all there but I was still willing to go through it because it is who I am, someone who puts in the effort everyday regardless of what's going on in my life, even the little things. The passion was still burning.

Yesterday however, I wanted to film some stuff just seeing what could be fun to do, did several takes each of the things I was doing and it became kind of a warm up for me before I did my workout with the Band again. The end result of what came out to a demo is what you see below. The workout however, just doing simple exercises for my circuit and starting up my tunes, the fire wasn't just burning within me, it was like something poured gasoline on it. I was pumped, energy was electric and I was cruising through that fucker with a vengeance and felt invincible. It was like the day before was a blur and something not only kicked in but made me think I was superhuman. I love moments like that. It may not happen 100% of the time but when it happens, it shows that if you're consistent and you keep at it, you will have those moments when they're meant to. No one was around me, I never talked to anyone or even go into some meditative state beforehand, it was right there and my mind & body were connected in that moment in time. I want to have that feeling again and again.

Sometimes your training won't always make your day better but you can make things happen that will have an impact on you that makes your day interesting. There have been days where my workouts seem to drag on but then something kicks in and it just goes. Other days, I have that fearless and take charge kind of thinking and those workouts turn into an epic session. It happens at times when you've done some kind of a workout every single day for 20+ years straight even if it was for 5 minutes. Certain things will come and go but when you always have that passion, that drive, that fire, every workout will do something to you whether you're having a bad day or whatever. It's one of the reasons I call it my second language, it's instinctive and fluent. 

Training with a passion comes with its own rewards, there are pros and cons to doing something every single day but the pros far outweigh the cons and when you do something, it may not seem like anything at first but the more you get into it, it turns into something beautiful and practically spellbinding. I can give you small hints of what the rewards are but in order to understand them, you have to figure them out yourself by experiencing it. You don't get benefits from looking at words, you get them by feel, by moving, by discovery of what you're capable of. With passion, you will feel things that you don't get with other things. Don't wait around to find out, get after it and be fucking amazingly awesome. 

He Walks In Flame

 Sometimes, we need to dig deep into ourselves to find the energy it takes to train and do what needs to be done or even put ourselves into a state of bringing that fuel to the fire that burns within. It's not always going to be motivating to workout, neither is it going to be easy to get through one when we don't have the mental strength to do it. The truth is, we all have the power in us, the question is, how do we bring it out?

From a short perspective of how CoreForce Energy works at least from my experiences is that it's not about being motivated and it certainly isn't how energetic or possibly lethargic you are; it's about what you bring into your mind that translates into the physical. Not what you think from an analytical POV, but from a vibrational POV. There's vibrations all around us, some of it isn't felt right away, other times it's painfully obvious where it hits your nervous system, the goosebumps you get, the sensations that can't always be explained. What if we were able to create something out of that using the mind/muscle connection and build that energy within even if we're tired as fuck? It's not the same thing as adrenaline, it's focused intent to utilize the brain to fire the neurons that goes into unleashing levels of strength, speed and agility that pops and gives off that electrical essence.

Motivation isn't always what people think it is. It's behavioral, an act using reasoning or a series of reasoning. We need a reason to do this or that in order to motivated to do something. Being able to channel our energy into thinking differently isn't through reasoning, it's through vibrating our bodies and putting effort into bringing out something that was always there and using it to give us abilities that have been chained up or locked away. We can do this through meditation, using music, recreating a feel from a strong memory or even through exercise. 

One of the reasons I've always found CFE fascinating is because it teaches you to see into another world, to have or the imagination of a child, to look into things beyond what you see with your eyes. You learn to listen to sounds, move with fluidity, create strength that many scientists say we don't use, all through the power of how we synchronize thought and feeling. 

I can't put all of how it works on here cause that would just take forever, but what I can tell is that with practice, it is possible to rewire your thoughts and vibrate at another level that has you doing things that look effortless, as if you've done things for decades when you may be doing them for the first. That's not luck, that's power. 

In the case of exercise or training in general, when you think differently and program your mind to feel things through the course of range of motion, it won't seem like you're grunting and grinding, it be as if you can work an exercise with flawless precision and moving as if you can go on forever. Grinding out an exercise has its perks, pushing towards a goal and busting your ass like your life depended on it. Many do that and believe that's the only way to achieve results when in fact, you can make many exercises look effortless even though they're tough to do. Garin Bader, the creator of CoreForce, uses it to work levels of strength that are actually pretty phenomenal to witness. The way he knocks over a 300 lb Boxing dummy is bad ass. His 2 Finger Superman Push-ups seem so surreal that he makes it look like someone doing regular push-ups a breeze. He showed me a version of the Hindu Squats using CD's as a tool to showcase how to move in another plane of motion with the arms. 

In the case with the Dopamineo Band, putting a different thought into a movement where to the naked eye, it's just a move but to the person working the exercise, there's electrical spheres on the body, there's hitting a point in space that zaps you with greater speed, there's follow through with powerful light. For the record, yes these are all imaginative and not real but when imagination runs as if it was real, you're creating a whole new oulook of what natural movement looks like. 

It all sounds pretty nuts huh? Trust me, I've been there, I know the feeling many have when it comes to this stuff at first. As adults, we have been taught to look at things right there with our own eyes and where to go this way or that way. To the thinking of a child, it defies the laws of physics and being able to transform, zig zag on a dime without warning, be able to have super powers and walk through walls with incredible intensity. Einstein had certain things going on that were not the norm through the scientific era of his time. He was seeing and writing down things people thought couldn't exist, he saw himself standing on a beam of light, traveling through space and time, his mind was complex and difficult to interpret. He had symptoms of Dyslexia yet he was able to come up with the formula of E=Mc2 that many scientists today utilize what is believed to be the laws of the universe. Like a child, he let his imagination open the door to possibilities unlike at any other time in history. He saw himself traveling at the speed of light, he helped reshape what physicists see as what time and space formulates and built a legacy that next to greats like Newton & Tesla, found what is now truth and continued evolution of mathematics and scientific breakthroughs. 

Getting a little carried away with this but it's exciting to me. Being able to see things from another perspective and build vibrations that enhance our strength and power. Hard work has its purpose, but when you stop and think with a different mindset, you can find ways to do things that look like it's not hard work at all but as if you make it as easy as flipping a switch. A key aspect is to not view it as "I got to work harder, I need to be faster, I have to....." whatever it is, it gives off the vibes of taking that area of thinking out of the equation and putting effort into doing things that can be hard to do but you make it look like it's a fucking cakewalk. It's one of the coolest things you can look into and find out what you can truly be capable of. Check out CoreForce Energy. What took you years, can maybe be accomplished in days or even hours. You never know what you are able to do. 

Be amazingly awesome and bring out that fire within you, walk with strength that turns heads and set ablaze the very power you always had. 

 

A Workout Is Just A Workout

    The way most people look at exercise is that they just want it over with. Driving to the gym, slap on some clothes and do their little cardio sessions and baby weights plus a little Zumba or Jazzercise to "spice" it up. Sometimes people exercise just to get away from home and do their thing, nothing wrong with that but then there are those that take it so seriously they'll die before they don't have a great training session. For me in 9+ years of doing at least 1 workout every single day, I look at it as an opportunity to challenge my body, my mind and the way certain exercises feel with a sense of purpose and imagination. For the most part I'm a complete nerd when it comes to exercise and I've accepted that. People in the most sense don't really use their minds from an opened stand point, they're very analytical and don't realize that the right amount of things to use for your goals is not that much yet isolate the shit of out their bodies.

 
    Like a few people in fitness, I put passion into my exercise, I may not always show it but in my mind I'm firing up and I'll keep going until I feel I'm done. Those who train with fire and passion go beyond just a workout, it's a battle to who can keep up and the biggest competition is not that twerp bodybuilder with bunny weights, it's you against yourself. I've seen a lot of people in the gym and even a few train outside that train with a little finesse and have good technique but their energy just isn't there. It's like they do something just for the sake of doing it. It doesn't matter what you train as or what goals you're trying to achieve whether it's losing weight, building muscle, hold a handstand, pull the strongest cables or lift a weight you want to surpass; if you're passionate about it than use it to get the results you want.

 
    One secret I don't share with many people and now I'm giving it to you is that a real workout and I'm not talking about pushing your limits or getting psyched and all that stuff; what I'am talking about is that a great workout that is real and demanding for you is like telling a story. How do you introduce the story in your workouts, where's the conflict, do you have certain characters (exercises) that have something to say and how would you end it? Every story has a beginning, a middle and an end but it can't be just some mediocre story, it's how you play it out in your mind and putting it into action (training). You're creating a place in time where the way you feel and the way the story moves you. It's like a beautiful dance, you need rhythm, poise, and balance and most importantly you need to breathe life into it. How's that for a workout? It's not even a workout anymore, it's like a play and each chapter is one step closer to being stronger, more powerful and like an awesome ending it's going to change your mental state in a very cunning way.

 
    A great workout is flooded with intensity, not that getting mad and screaming crap but the focus and the drive to move faster, more efficient and strength that you didn't think you had in you. Many people can't understand this because there's no energy and no drive to do better. Sometimes the pace is slower or faster for some people but those that want to test themselves and see how far they're willing to go to get that intense focus to achieve the goals they strive for. One man I can name at the top of my head that is intense as you can get is Matti Marzel of Ferocious Strength; he's so adamant to be the very best at what he does that his intensity is felt throughout his writing and his videos as he breaks wrenches, does extremely advanced exercises on his fingertips and even holds himself up in ways some elite gymnasts can't fathom. He is that focused and he's just as intense from talking as he is training but the main point here is that he's one of extreme few individuals in this world that throws himself into this powerful state of mind and pushes himself to the point most are too damn afraid to go. A workout is never just a workout.

 
Happy Wednesday everyone. Keep it up and train hard during this mid week and be awesome. Looking for advice and coaching to help achieve your goals than grab $50 worth of products and as a bonus, I'll throw in a one-one free coaching session on skype. Check out the bottom of the site logo for more details.

Kettlebell Juggling ON FIRE!!!!

Hello,

Leave it to Logan to come up with this idea.

As if juggling heavy weights isn't enough of an impressive skill...

He decided to light a kettlebell on fire and then juggle it!

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Ben Bergman

Fire, Passion & Powerful

Three words that I can describe this guy whose come right out of the bushes and began a journey of strength & health unlike anyone I’ve seen before. I’m talking about my man Matti Merzel. He’s one very unique individual that you only see once in a generation. A man who’s come so far in a short period of time that one can only wonder how far he’s going to push the limit. This is the same guy who was in the army in Israel and became a mean, fighting machine.

 There’s a lot of great qualities about him but one thing that gives him away more then anything in a good way is his intensity for becoming strong and powerful at a small size. One would not think of him as being strong but that’s where ignorance is bliss. I’ve seen and talked to some of the strongest people on this planet but Matt has that aura of him that takes on a whole new meaning to the words “holy f*cking s*it.”

 He’s a warrior by nature not only being in the military but in his specific feats of strength he performs. I’ve seen him break wrenches, rip phonebooks, held handstands and whatever the hell else he does and in every feat, there’s a fire in his veins that just never seems to wear out unless he wants it to. It’s hard to believe that strongmen have that much intensity and love for what they do but within Matti it’s a little different like with every living breathing strongman. The power he posses should not be human and most likely isn’t but nonetheless, like they say “with great power comes great responsibility.”

 There’s John Cena in the WWE who’s the face of the company and is a living, breathing athlete. The reason why I chose Cena to compare to Matti, not because of athletic ability, not for being a wild character but because like Cena, Matti has a passion for what he loves the most and he lives, breathes, eats, talks, thinks it every single day of his life and he believes nothing will get in his way of succeeding. It’s that passion that you only see once in a lifetime, it’s that passion that you can’t fathom unless you experience it but it’s also that passion that puts you ahead of many others and your only way is not to climb down but climb up and in the words of Rocky Balboa “Its not how hard you hit, its how hard you get hit and still willing to keep fighting.” You can’t teach that in a school or a gym or in an office, you learn it by fighting through it with heart and will power more then any average person. It’s that fine line between ordinary and extraordinary.

 Want to see the passion, fire and love for Physical Culture? Head over to Ferociousstrength.com and look at the already plethora of articles he’s written that are just over the top with info that not many this fast has accomplished. I encourage you to read this man’s story and find what makes me a real fire-breathing athlete in our realm of Physical Training. Give him a chance and he’ll make it worth your while and then some as he will help you take your training to a whole new level. This is a dawning of a new Era and it will be an Era all will never forget.